Very nice.

I was thinking he needs to upgrade his hood ornament with the bigger horns.

I've got an old Mercedes 'meme car' that I'd love a set of longhorns for.

Welcome.

This place will only get better the more people use it and return. So feel free to share something interesting and check back every day or so to see whats new!

I was told when I was communicating with the EFF that they'd likely do a write up over the events taking place, and am happy to see this come to light finally. This is how it all began: https://twitter.com/IncogNetLLC/status/1685359845505957888

For those unaware, I own a small ISP that focuses on speech and privacy. Hurricane Electric is a major transit provider where a customer of ours, downstream of us, had their IPs that were announced by us blackholed and dropped by Hurricane Electric. At the time, their IP announcement was a singlehomed connection to HE only so it essentially meant that they censored and blocked access to this legal content.

This is why platforms and networks like I2P and Tor are so incredibly important, but also why it's important we support organizations like the EFF who fight for our clearnet rights.

Even worse, technically, the 'border' extends 100 miles inland within the United States. Your rights are extremely limited in these areas: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone

If you've ever lived in, visited or traveled through some areas of the American south, you may be surprised to find border checkpoints 80 miles north of the US/MX border, for example. Borders aren't just land borders, either, as it also includes sea/lake borders.

Today I learned that Ramble was linked to on Vanilla I2P.

I didn't realize that it occurred on the June 30th release and that this wasn't actually "new" news (2mo~) until about fifteen minutes ago.

Either way, glad to see that the site is directly accessible from both consoles!

I2P or I2P+?

I know it's been on I2P+ for a long time, but didn't know if it was in/on vanilla I2P.

Ha - Yeah, we may or may not suffer from a lack of activity here.

Update: Tried running in on my workstation. It's performs like dog shit.

Back to XFCE fulltime.

I'm in the wrong business.

Sad thing is, as we've seen in recent years, banking can be completely political. We saw those Canadian truckers and their supporters get their bank accounts frozen, we've seen merchant account platforms like PayPal and Stripe close access to companies based on frivolous reasons.

Cash is still king.

I definitely recommend listening to the entire testimony. Once past the normal boring introductions and listening to the three witnesses it gets really good.

Could it be a giant psyop? Sure. Three witnesses were highly credentialed and under oath, but that could be all part of the 'bigger plan' if a giant psyop. If it was, then what for? This hardly got any main stream media coverage so if it was a coverup for something else, it was a piss poor coverup since the only news being regurgitated that day was of our imagining politicians freezing in place (Mitch McConnell) and how hot it was outside.

Yeah, I'm not sure why this wasn't publicized more or why even on reddit it never made it to /r/news, for example. Most the articles I did read or skim through were vague and didn't really touch base on much of the key points or claims made. Only places I could find on reddit giving an honest go-over was places like /r/conspiracy or, of course, /r/ufos .

I'd say to date it's the most credible and open discussion on the topic. The links you shared are certainly good reads, but submitted by people with unknown credentials and without being under oath in front of congress, though what they stated is very similar to what was shared on Wednesday before the world.

A personal experience of my own: As a kid in the early 90's, and in a very rural part of America, I always had a clear view of the night sky. My childhood was spent outdoors, climbing trees, building forts in the woods and just laying down in the yard at night staring at the stars.

I very distinctly remember seeing a large triangle shaped object one night, with the blunt side moving forward slowly and the pointy tip being the rear of the... thing. It seemed low to the ground (a few hundred feet maybe) and I recall a light in each corner and it moving slowly, that's it. I've never seen anything else in my life since then like that, and then probably about 6 or 7 years ago while sitting around a camp fire sharing some beers with some hikers (strangers) at a shared campsite we all happened to stop at one night while hiking a long trail in the region, we start swapping stories and someone else from the same general area as me mentioned seeing the exact same thing one night during the same timeframe (early 90's), this was mentioned before I had said anything at all. What he described was exactly what I had observed all those years prior.

There is also a military installment nearby, so the 'easy explanation' is that it was simply some experimental military craft that can move slowly, quietly, and 'backwards' (blunt side forward, pointy side backward). We'd occasionally have the house rattled due to sonic booms from military test flights back then, so there was definitely military activity and training in the area during this time period as well. Still eerie to think about it all these years later.

Had a family member in the Air Force who spent a lot of time out in New Mexico, and closer to his death he'd tell some stories. Many seemed like tall tales, but this is a man who wasn't much for gloating or bragging. I think a lot of what he shared was more, "heard through the grapevine", so to speak. He wasn't a front line grunt by any means, but certainly wasn't high up on the totem pole either.

Who knows.

Just seems implausible to think that we're alone and that the elements we require for life are the same elements required for other life. I hope we see more discourse and open transparent discussion on the subject from the government moving forward though!

Man, I would have loved to have 25Mbps down previously. Used a rural WISP for a long time, until the company stopped offering the ISP part of it's telecom business. Even then, I could only get about 10Mbps down on a good day. Afterwards, was stuck using a 4G Mobile hotspot in an area where 1 bar of service is standard, two if I walk to the edge of the property. Common speeds for that was 2-3Mbps. I could have gotten ViaSat or something else, but the price, bandwidth cap, reviews and speeds made it seem like a no-go.

Finally after over a year of waiting was able to get Starlink, but it's so costly for the speed and service. I love it, don't get me wrong, but I'd much rather have in-home DSL or something for a quarter of the cost and quarter of the max speed if it was an option here.

This is all within the last few years.

The US is massive and still mostly rural, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be able to bring fiber to most areas of the country. I feel like you can't drive 100 miles on the interstate without running into some large roadway construction or maintenance project, seems like a good time to build out a larger fiber network and allow ISPs to lease the fiber or something.

And then you have some cities where it's practically ATT and Comcast holding a monopoly on internet, and other cities where there are dozens of small ISPs and multi-gbps fiber to your home or office is an easily accessible and affordable option.

I have a soft-spot in my heart for these type of people. As an avid backpacker, it's not uncommon to meet folk doing similar things on foot. I've picked up hitchhikers in the past that have similar stories, traveling vast distances. I've shared my home for several days to one of the nicest dudes ever who was bike-packing across America and just wanted to rest for a few days and pitch a tent in the back yard and use a shower. Lot of nice folks out there who may not fit into ordinary roles in modern society but are the most genuine, happy, and free people you may ever meet.

Yeah, he's great. I used to listen when working 3rd shift in a machine shop.

This.

I work in the web-hosting industry, and there are a handful of common and popular proprietary software used that used to require CentOS / RHEL as the base OS. Then most of them now support AlmaLinux, which I've got on a handful of servers as a requirement. Haven't really used Rocky Linux, but have used AlmaLinux a lot now, and I run CloudLinuxOS which is/was RHEL based but it's a commercial Linux OS geared towards this industry.

Anyway, FINALLY some of these companies are producing statements that they're releasing Debian/Ubuntu betas or have it on their roadmap for making their software work on these OSes. Which is great.

Amazon? Never heard of them! /s

Threads got a jump start on it's userbase by making it incredibly simple for current Instagram (and maybe Facebook?) users from signing up to the platform. They already have your data, so you don't need to 'create an account'. It's more of an opt-in, from what I understand. So with that in mind, it's incredibly hassle-free to join which likely is the reason for such high numbers, if they are to be believed to begin with.

It's unlikely to be a Twitter killer in my opinion, but time will tell.

What I find the most interesting when reading comments on the web on places like reddit is the amount of people who dislike Musk so much that they'll support Zuckerberg blindly. Say what you want about Musk but he has at least been part of advancing the automobile, space and telecom industries. Zuck probably still thinks people are "dumb fucks" for trusting him with their data.

(Posted from my Starlink connection. Thanks Musk!)

Nice, will have to check it out. I'll admit, there are some times where I don't feel like digging through ancient StackOverflow entries or random KB articles and documentation. ChatGPT has come in real handy and has likely saved me a lot of time.

As much as I'm uncertain about AI's role in the future, for now, it's helped me out of a bind or two.

Care to recommend a 60% keyboard? Bonus if it comes with a travel case!

It'll only be for mobile use with the laptop, as my workstation and daily driver needs a num-pad for me to keep my sanity since I crunch some numbers from time to time. But I'd still like a 60% option for increased portability and ability to pack one in a bag with my laptop.

Absurd.

And like, I get it to a degree. Sure, there are some shitty people online. And sure, some hide behind anonymity.

And there are also people who just don't want giant corporations harvesting data about them or who wish to keep their government out of their daily life, even when doing nothing at all wrong. And for them, there are people that all fall in between or wish to have privacy for various other reasons.

It's bizarre to me that wanting privacy can even ever be considered controversial. No one thinks that because you put up a privacy fence on your property that you're now running a automobile chop-shop or operating a meth lab in the back yard, now that the neighbors and passersby can't see in. Not sure why people assume the worse when people want digital privacy, as well. No one would demand all houses remove privacy fences so everyone can see their yards, which I think can be sort of an apt comparison to digital privacy.

I just use these cheap Amazon mechanical keyboards, and am happy with them. They're a great upgrade to what I had before, and without breaking the bank.

I'm sort of looking for a 60% mechanical keyboard now for part of a 'mobile office' setup, as I absolutely hate typing on a laptop. Any recommendations?

Luckily, faraday bags are (still) legal and easy to make, and cheap to buy if you want one. I've got some name-brand faraday bag that was $25 or so, which works well in all tests I've done. In a pinch can make one with similar effectiveness that may be a bit gaudy to look at, but hey, function over fashion! https://www.instructables.com/EASIEST-FARADAY-PHONE-POUCH/

I'm able to disable the camera and mic on my Pixel 7 w/ GrapheneOS via software, but unsure how well it actually 'works'. I know that when I open an app that requires either, I get warnings that the mic is disabled (As if, I open the phone app) or whatever, which I can toggle back on, if I need to.

France really has gone above and beyond as of late to prove that they hate your privacy.

This is what the type of people who left Twitter want, though. They want a circle-jerk where everyone says the same things and no one deviates from the talking points that they've deemed acceptable.

I don't agree with it, but it's what these people wanted.